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January 12, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The U.S. Department of Labor (DoL) has filed suit against the owners of a bankrupt Chicago-area company for diverting their employees’ health care...

January 12, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - For the second quarter in a row, institutional money managers are broadly optimistic and see continued stable financial and economic conditions, according to...

January 12, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Marathon Health and Healthcarebluebook.com now have a co-marketing agreement to bring new consumer education and health care price transparency tools to employers with...

January 12, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The nation’s economic downturn has prompted plaintiffs’ lawyers to increase the pace of filing class action lawsuits to recover 401(k) plan losses under...

January 12, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Charles D. Cahill has joined Cassidy Retirement Group, a Concord, Massachusetts-based retirement plan consulting firm, as a consulting actuary.

January 12, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Financial Research Corporation (FRC) projects that the college savings market will more than double in size over the next five years , approaching...

January 12, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Callan Associates finds DC plan sponsors saying that reviewing plan-related expenses was the most important fiduciary action they took over the past year.

January 12, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) –  A federal judge ruled the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) cannot add new claims to the current case related to Bank of...

January 12, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – New research indicates that after reviewing the events of the prior 18 months and analyzing the performance of their investment portfolios, many European...

January 12, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The Guardian Insurance & Annuity Company, Inc. (GIAC) is initiating an enhanced awards program for third-party administrators (TPAs) whose clients utilizeThe Guardian Choice...

January 12, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. Postal Service informed New York State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli’s office that hundreds of pension checks for retirees in the central...

January 12, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The year 2009 was kind to the ETF market, with a whopping 45% jump in assets to $775.8 billion as of December 31,...

January 12, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – A new report from State Street Corporation suggests institutional investors do not take full advantage of exchange-traded funds (ETFs).

January 12, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - VALIC has hired Robert J. "Bob" Architect, formerly Senior Tax Law Specialist and 403(b) guidance author in the Internal Revenue Service's Employee Plans...

January 12, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Augsburg Fortress, the publishing ministry of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) is terminating its defined benefit retirement plan effective March 5.

January 12, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - ING Institutional Plan Services Group has been selected by the State of Minnesota to be the administrator for its 457 deferred compensation plan.

January 11, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – A new report says actual participant behavior is more varied and volatile than most target-date funds assume.

January 11, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The Winston & Strawn law firm has added James P. Baker, a specialist in the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA), to its...

January 11, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp. (PBGC) has assumed responsibility for the underfunded pension plan covering nearly 13,000 former workers and retirees of Hartmarx...